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[stevemcgarrett]

My, my, oh my: Nancy Pelosi and her liberal Democratic colleagues are at it again on Capitol Hill.

Now they've passed a resolution condeming the Turkish genocide against the Armenians...during the First World War.

This most recent effort to confront human rights abuses retroactively would be both laughable and pathetic if it weren't so damaging to American foreign policy.

Thanks Nancy--and while I'm at it--thank you, too, Jimmy, for leading the Democratic Party charge in a near desperate effort to demonstrate to voters that liberals can muster clout against Republicans even if it means undermining our military efforts in the Middle East.

What is also galling is that the current incarnation of the Democratic leadership is the first to openly and deliberately interfere in the foreign policy initiatives of the U.S. government. I'm not only referring to the Bush Administration--which has bungled in its own regard by not allowing the Turks to take care of Kurdish incursions on their southern border--but also the Pentagon and State Department.

Carter is the first ex-president to publicly and vociferously criticize the foreign policy of a current president in nearly a century. That he would have the audacity to judge given his own hapless years at the helm of state (e.g., Panama Canal, return of Khomeini to Iran, the Iranian hostage crisis, continued support for Marcos, etc.) is a sight to behold.

The liberals of this day and age in Congress never saw a resolution they didn't like. To listen to Pelosi and company you'd think they were deliberating some timely moral crisis in the world.

Never mind, of course, that this resolution comes at a time when we rely on Turkish bases for nearly 70% of all logistical support to the troops in Iraq, or that these forward bases are used for refueling purposes by the Air Force for wider Middle East operations.

Never mind that these same Democratics who lament the supposed insensitivity of the Bush Administration to world opinion are tearing open an old wound, one which has already drawn a very negative response from the Turkish government and the public at large.

Never mind that their time could be better spent on figuring out how to put more diplomatic pressure on Russia, India, and China to leverage the military junta in Burma.

Never mind that the historical dock of damnation is full of genocidal acts just waiting to be denounced for posterity.

I mean, Nancy and Tom, why stop here? How about a resolution condemning the Khmer Rouge's actions in Cambodia? How about a resolution condemning the Japanese genocide against China?

I wouldn't be surprised if Nancy hosts a Democratic fundraiser with a film festival featuring Midnight Express as a way of stirring up anti-Turkish sentiment.

You go, girl. You go...away.

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[Kuros]

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[mack4289]

So what's in this for the Democrats? Why do this now?

[Ya-ta Boy]

[mack4289]

This is one of those things that makes the government seem like it's not really part of the country. There's two wars going on, people are losing their houses all over the country from the subprime mortgage problem, millions of people don't have healthcare, and the government is taking the time to condemn a genocide that happened during World War I. No one who's not either in government or part of an activist group would think, "It's about time we condemned the Turks for slaughtering the Armenians 90 years ago."

[Kuros]

[huffdaddy]

Here's what Congress did last Wednesday. I reckon over half of it is outright frivolity (1-86). I also reckon that this frivolity has been going on for quite some time. Congratulations to Steve "the weasel" McGarett for finally learning a little something about US government. What are you going to tell us next? "CONGRESS WASTES A LOT OF MONEY"?

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